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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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